But then it passed, as all things do.
KHALED HOSSEINIYou see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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I finally had what I’d wanted all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.
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When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.
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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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There is a way to be good again.
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I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
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It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.
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A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
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